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Genesis 3:2

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3:2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat 1  of the fruit from the trees of the orchard;
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[3:2]  1 tn There is a notable change between what the Lord God had said and what the woman says. God said “you may freely eat” (the imperfect with the infinitive absolute, see 2:16), but the woman omits the emphatic infinitive, saying simply “we may eat.” Her words do not reflect the sense of eating to her heart’s content.



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